“Very well made, fan mostly off don't even notice it most of the time, as the case naturally distributes the heat.
Lost track of the number of cases I have tried, but this is by far the bast.”
“Hi
I am very happy with this product.
It is really easy to set it up and get it up and running.
The only thing I don't like is not having access to add a micro SD card without having to open the set.
Other than that, I am very pleased.
Best”
“The case is brilliant, but.... i gave four stars as the supplied kit has screws that are too short to secure the base and RPi. Make sure you have some M2.5x8mm long screws handy. Fortunately i did in my laptop repair kit. Also the thermal pads are a bit on the small side. Otherwise, exceptionally well built and keeps a clocked RPi-5 in the safe zone. Looks great too.”
“Superb engineering and initial tests show better cooling than the 'active cooler' I had on the bare Pi5 board. I followed the instructions, which were very clear, and had no issues with the board installation. I had a SSD from my previous configuration and so I did not need to follow the given instructions on how to initialize a new SSD. I tuurned it on and everything booted and brought up the normal display without any problems or issues. I am very impressed with the case and NVMe board.”
“this case is as sturdy as discribed. everything well thought (from the case heathink to cable management) .
doesn't get hot, the fan just kicks sometimes under pressure. daily use no fan.
as par as a rpi5
very good work”
“First, a review on Pimoroni's service: amazing! I ordered this late in the day, it shipped and was at my house a few days later (across the pond). Received multiple emails about the status and was amazed how quickly it arrived. Now a review on the Argon NEO 5 M.2: It's great! I was looking for something to hold my Pi 5 and NVME chip with cooling, and this fit the bill. The metal case helps disperse heat, and it comes with silicon heat sink pads (which could be upgraded with non-electric dielecgtric conducting heat transfer thermal paste, if you desire). The case was short on a couple screws to completely button it up, but everything is great from there. Follow the assembly instructions carefully. Argon has a couple of scripts to upgrade the firmware on your Pi 5 and gives it some ability to throttle the fan based on the temperature and for power management. I had to perform several steps to dance into using the NVme as a bootable disc, which was no fault of the hardware, and was fun/entertaining and educational as I did so. I installed the Pi OS (64-bit) on an imaged mini-SD card (the lite version) and booted my device up. The Pi recognized the NVme m.2 chip, and the process of transferring the OS to that was the next phase. I installed x-windows and used VNC to remote in to use the Pi imager to transfer yet another fresh copy of the Lite OS onto the NVme side, and then used rapsi-config to set the NVme to boot by default. It did! I've left my SD card in to use as a back-up drive, and use it to host a minecraft server for my kids, as well as a pi-hole. The Argon case is a nice bundle for holding your m.2 memory (I chose a 2242 size because it used less amperage, though it supports a bundle of m.2 lengths!). When using the supplied silicon heat transfer pad for the m.2 chip, I had to double-up the thickness of it to get it to have physical contact with the case (for heat transfer), but since my length was smaller, I had enough. The instructions also assume you know what each chip does (when applying the heat transfer pads), so it turned into an education to identify the purpose of the chips, which I enjoyed and now know. The push-button power is also pleasant to have and the case exposes the HDMI and USB ports perfectly. No easy access to replace the mini SD card (that's fine for my use) and it has proper airflow for the fan, which is quite, but audible when it kicks into max. Definitely appreciate the design work put into this and having a safe case for holding the m.2 hat. Would buy again!”
“The case has an integrated NVME PCIe card and this works as expected. Only 2 thermal pads were supplied for the fan and they were significantly smaller than the 3 that come with the official Pi 5 fan + heatsink, so I moved some over. I either inadvertantly stripped the thread from one of the case screws, or it never had thread in the case. The ribbon cable was trickier to install correctly compared to other NVME PCIe boards.”
“The case, accompaning hardware, and instructions are top notch on this one. I would suggest a bit more heat-sink tap and allocation to accomodate folks that like to overclock ;) Great product. Fit and finish are most excellent. Glad I was able to get my hands on these.”
